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Cybercriminals Stopped Trying to Break AI’s Rules and Started Building Their Own

Cybercriminals Stopped Trying to Break AI’s Rules and Started Building Their Own

Researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have documented what happens when cybercriminals stop attempting to circumvent the guardrails on legitimate AI systems and simply build their own without any. The two underground language models they analyzed are not experimental projects or proof-of-concept demonstrations. They are functional tools, trained on stolen code, leaked datasets, and […]

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Google’s Antigravity IDE Has a Real Problem, and AI-Assisted Development Just Got More Complicated

Google’s Antigravity IDE Has a Real Problem, and AI-Assisted Development Just Got More Complicated

Google launched its Antigravity IDE with the kind of positioning that lands well with engineering-focused leadership teams: an AI-first development environment where intelligent agents write, test, and manage parts of a project automatically. The productivity case is real. An all-in-one tool that accelerates software development without proportionally scaling the team behind it solves a genuine […]

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AI Agents Are Quietly Reshaping How Retail Operations Actually Run

AI Agents Are Quietly Reshaping How Retail Operations Actually Run

More than two-thirds of retailers are already piloting or partially implementing agentic AI, according to a new Fluent Commerce report. Another 71 percent expect these tools to deliver measurable efficiency gains within the next year. The numbers reflect something significant happening beneath the surface of an industry that rarely gets credit for its operational complexity, […]

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Transparency and Trust Are Becoming the Competitive Divide in AI Adoption

Transparency and Trust Are Becoming the Competitive Divide in AI Adoption

AI gives businesses capabilities that would have seemed implausible five years ago. Predicting customer behavior before it happens. Personalizing experiences at scale. Spotting demand shifts weeks ahead of the competition. The technology works. The question that is quietly separating leading organizations from exposed ones is whether the data powering those capabilities is being handled in […]

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AI Systems Can Be Manipulated Into Producing Harmful Content, and Businesses Need to Understand Why That Matters

AI Systems Can Be Manipulated Into Producing Harmful Content, and Businesses Need to Understand Why That Matters

Researchers recently tested whether popular AI systems could be pushed past their safety guardrails through carefully crafted prompts. The results were uncomfortable. Many systems complied with harmful requests faster than anyone involved in building them would like to admit, and the implications for businesses deploying these tools deserve serious attention. Most organizations adopting AI tools […]

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